Confucius (551–479 BCE), Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children (and in traditional interpretations) of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", an early version of the Golden Rule.
Confucius' family and personal name respectively was "Kong Qiu". He is also known by the honorific "Kong Fuzi" , literally "Master Kong"). The Latinized name "Confucius" is derived from "Kong Fuzi", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China.
“Attack the evil that is within yourself,
rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
~ Confucius
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I have a very strange English translation of the Analects done by, of all people, Ezra Pound. My Chinese is not adequate to the task but I'd love to find out how accurate it is; it's very much in vernacular English.
Your request for no M.S.G. was ignored.
Analects, 6:19
(I may have oversimplified a bit, but I'm pretty sure this causal chain is correct).
It's no wonder this country is going downhill so fast!
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"Judge not, that ye may not be judged; for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow [me], I will cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother." (Matthew 7:1-5 (Darby, 1890)
I will definitely pull it out next week & read it to the judge when I have to show up in court for my traffic stop.
the faults of others are easily seen, for they are sifted
like chaff, but one’s own faults are hard to see. This is
like the cheat who hides his dice and shows the dice of
his opponent, calling attention to the other’s shortcomings,
continually thinking of accusing him."
~ Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha
Oh yeah - I just looked on your profile, Mr. "cursed with self-defacing tornado of senseless humor", to quote your own words.
So just zip it.
There are lots more faults under your house than the San Andreas. California has hundreds of fault lines.
On his quote, I surely agree...
“Attack the evil that is within yourself,
rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
~ Confucius
Like the mote in your brother's eye -- and the log in your own.